Kató Lomb
One of the greatest simultaneous interpreters
Kató Lomb was one of the first
simultaneous interpreters in the world.
Her native language was Hungarian. And
according to her, she earned money
altogether from sixteen languages:
Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, French,
English, German, Italian, Hebrew, Polish,
Latin, Romanian, Japanese, Spanish,
Russian, Slovak and Ukrainian. She
mostly taught herself these languages.
She found course books for learning
languages boring. So in order to learn,
she read novels that she found
interesting, in a language completely
unknown to her. She gleaned the basics of the language, its
grammar and vocabulary through these novels.
References:
https://campusdiaries.com/
http://www.cracked.com/article_19248_6-uneducated-amateurs-whose-genius-changedworld.html
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